San Jose, CA.

Nickel City

User Reviews of Nickel City

Yelp.com Review - by Chen G.

4.0 of 5 stars. Awesome place to play all your favorite old-school arcade games for very little money. I expected to waste maybe 30 minutes in there, but walked away 2 hours later with a handful of prizes and a...
yelp.com - user review - 05/03/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Patrick D.

3.0 of 5 stars. Its fun for about 1 hour. Then this place starts to hurt. Its dirty, a little scummy, and did I say seedy? But damnit if Defender is not the best game ever.
yelp.com - user review - 03/20/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Michelle W.

3.0 of 5 stars. Solid hour of fun for me & my husband. Including cover charge, we spent about $6 or 7, not bad for an hour of nostalgic amusement.However, the place is poorly maintained. Of course when the machines...
yelp.com - user review - 03/03/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Kimberly S.

2.0 of 5 stars. I don't know what happened to this place. it used to be full of fun, but they changed a lot of the games and now its just for boys who like to play old fashioned arcade games. in my opinion its not a...
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Jackie D.

4.0 of 5 stars. 4 stars because the bf took me here on one of our first few dates. we played lots of games and then went to get more tickets too. i kick ass at puzzle fighter! this guy played against me and i kicked...
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Karina H.

4.0 of 5 stars. I took my little bro Sam to Nickel City, and we had a blast together!! :) He loves video games and arcade games.. so this was a perfect outing for the two of us.. I recommend it for a father son,...
yelp.com - user review - 02/17/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Peter Y.

4.0 of 5 stars. $2 to play all the Altered Beast I want?! What's not to like. There are numerous free play machines in the back and the other machines are fairly cheap. The most expensive one I found was $0.50. They...
yelp.com - user review - 02/11/2009
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Yelp.com Review - by Anna K.

3.0 of 5 stars. This place was okay. It's not really little kid friendly. The little kid friendly games were "out of order" and they had only 2 ticket machine working that day. The people working at the...
yelp.com - user review - 12/15/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Vivian H.

4.0 of 5 stars. Nickel City taught me that I should never go to a casino when I'm of age.I was glued to the machine with the hundreds of nickels being shoveled almost off a platform. I dropped nickels like dropping...
yelp.com - user review - 11/17/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Maria D.

3.0 of 5 stars. It was cool. More for "BIG" kids. Not really the little ones. I loved the free play wall featuring games like, Pac Man, Street Fighter, Pit Fall, Dig Dug, and many more "old skool" games
yelp.com - user review - 10/30/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Chanmao S.

4.0 of 5 stars. Yup, I am fan. If you are a game fanatic like I am, you will be spending more than just nickels. hahaha the machines eats my nickels as fast as the slot machines eats my quarters. Cool old skool...
yelp.com - user review - 10/02/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Regan C.

4.0 of 5 stars. Cheap fun - that sums it up. Last time I went, some of the arcade machines were broken. But for $2 entrance fee, and nickel games, I won't complain.
yelp.com - user review - 09/08/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Ede P.

1.0 of 5 stars. Once I got here at 10:00pm on a Saturday night, I knew the rest of the night was doomed for failure. The place was empty! If the library was opened on a Saturday night, I think there would be more...
yelp.com - user review - 09/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Scotty N.

1.0 of 5 stars. this place combines all of your favorite Atari 2600 classics with poor lighting, bad service, no air conditioning and teenage druggies. the joysticks don't work, most games use nickels...about 5-10...
yelp.com - user review - 09/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Grace K.

2.0 of 5 stars. Um...very ghetto place. A lot of broken games, some games that eat up your nickels, and it's pretty dirty in there. It was fun to go with a group of friends and look around for tickets left in the...
yelp.com - user review - 09/06/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Danny D.

4.0 of 5 stars. This place is fun to go when certain friends are under 21. I'm 26 now and I had a blast here, there was a battle of the bands playing some RATM, for 10 bucks I kicked ass at Killer Instinct for 2...
yelp.com - user review - 08/20/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by terry h.

4.0 of 5 stars. Awesome for us old-skool gamers. (I have a whole box full of 1980's Atari games and love them.)It only costs $2.00, yes I said two bucks and that enables you to play a whole boatload of free games....
yelp.com - user review - 08/17/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by jamie c.

3.0 of 5 stars. fun concept.however, plenty of hormone-raging adolescents believe it's a fun concept, too. and when you're 20-years-old trying to enjoy a clean game of tetris, this is against your favor.
yelp.com - user review - 08/02/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Swiftly T.

4.0 of 5 stars. It's your regular style arcade, but it's 1/5 the price! Well ok, most machines take more than one nickel but whatever it's still cheap. $2 to get in and $3 in nickels will last you at least an...
yelp.com - user review - 07/24/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Jeanie R.

4.0 of 5 stars. Good cheap fun! This is a great place for an inexpensive night of games. The admission fee is $2, which pays for itself on the free games in the corner. How can you beat 20 games of free Frogger! :)...
yelp.com - user review - 04/16/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Derek T.

4.0 of 5 stars. I used to go to Nickel City a lot as a young kid, but in the last 6 months it's been an almost-weekly destination for me and my group of friends. The cheap prices make it a safe bet every time.The...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Caroline L.

4.0 of 5 stars. SO MUCH FUN! I must preface this by saying I'm a total little girl at heart. When I go to Vegas, I find Circus Circus and Excalibur games much more exciting and fun than losing money at the Blackjack...
yelp.com - user review - 03/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by kim n.

3.0 of 5 stars. I'd almost totally forgotten about this place. My old roommate and I spent a shitload of time playing Nick Fury and the Punisher and various other Capcom and Neo Geo games when we got our of college....
yelp.com - user review - 02/29/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by jordan a.

3.0 of 5 stars. The place is pretty dirty and oily. Every time I've been here the toilet is always clogged with a turd the size of Andre The Giant's arm and of course nobody does anything about it because its mostly...
yelp.com - user review - 02/25/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Eileen L.

3.0 of 5 stars. This place is okay . Used to come here with two of my friends . There is a $2 admission fee . Kind of darker than your typical arcade . You use nickels here instead of quarters or tokens for games . I...
yelp.com - user review - 02/23/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Nate M.

2.0 of 5 stars. Keep your kids close by. Theres a number of creepy folks here that look like they're ready to snatch 'em once your back is turned. Old lady in brown trenchcoat playing bust-a-move for hours, I'm...
yelp.com - user review - 01/07/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by Geno R.

4.0 of 5 stars. This is an all around great place. I love going here when there is nothing to do, but you want to do something and not spend a lot of money. You can have fun here by yourself or with a group. The only...
yelp.com - user review - 01/05/2008
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Yelp.com Review - by D.J. T.

5.0 of 5 stars. Seriously, if you come here buzzed you will have the greatest time of your life. Get some friends together, go pre-drink somewhere, then head over to Nickel City and relive your childhood.We did this...
yelp.com - user review - 12/10/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by cammy g.

4.0 of 5 stars. One of my favorite movie scenes ever. National Lampoon's Vegas vacation. Clark goes to downtown Vegas to try to redeem his luck at the casinos, but utterly loses to games like rock-paper-scissors and...
yelp.com - user review - 11/14/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by dana v.

4.0 of 5 stars. Great price per hour entertainment! It took over an hour for me and my companion to blow through $3 worth of nickles. Many of the classics are represented, some of the new stuff, but not much of it....
yelp.com - user review - 10/09/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Muriel I.

4.0 of 5 stars. Last time I was here, I played Bust a Move, Puzzle Fighter, Time Crisis 3, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was in heaven.
yelp.com - user review - 09/28/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by emily w.

4.0 of 5 stars. After many tantrum and whining session every time we venture down to San Jose, I finally cave and comply to take Matt to Nickel City. Upon arrival of the dimly lit, burber carpeted arcade, my first...
yelp.com - user review - 08/08/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Tomas V.

5.0 of 5 stars. Nickel City rocks my face off~ with ParaParaDancing included!...too bad they closed several of their locations.this here is one of the last ones, if not the last remaining Nickel City.Pay them a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/25/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Ian S.

5.0 of 5 stars. I was working in San Jose for a few months at one of the offices that a larger company acquired and everyone else bailed in typical Silicon Valley Style for other people to clean up the mess (that...
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2007
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Yelp.com Review - by Mark G.

4.0 of 5 stars. Lots of old-school arcade games (Pac-Man, Robotron, Dig-Dug, Kung-Fu Master, etc.) and semi-old school games (I don't know the names, but a lot of those motorcycle racing ones). Good place for the...
yelp.com - user review - 11/11/2006
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More bang for your BUCK... by Manuel B. at InsiderPages

Had a good time here playing games. I was amazed at what it cost as compared to other arcades I have been to. Five bucks really goes a long way.This beats the nickel machines in Reno....
citysearch.com - user review - 09/29/2006
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Nicklel City by Barbara B. at InsiderPages

Where can you keep you r kids entertainned with some nickels... here is the place. We take groups of kids here and always feel like they were entertained for such a deal.
citysearch.com - user review - 09/28/2006
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Yelp.com Review - by Yvonne C.

4.0 of 5 stars. "Mommy, I'm BORED!" Sound familiar? Nickel city may be the ticket! There are lots of games to choose from, some of which are free! I was pleasantly surprised to see my old faves like Ms. Pac Man and...
yelp.com - user review - 09/15/2006
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Nickle City - A great bargain!

If your kids like video games, but if it feels like you're dropping enough cash to pay their college...
judysbook.com - user review - 01/10/2006
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Go and spend a few hours. by Michael L. at InsiderPages

This is one of those places where the longer you play, the more cost-effective it is. You pay and entrance fee, less than 3 dollars the last time I was there, and from then on you get a huge selection of...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/17/2005
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Nickel City by Jose R. at InsiderPages

Nickel City is a good place for kids to have some fun. You can host birthday parties here and the games available are mostly arcades wherein you pay a nickel to play. They have a lot of games where you can win...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/14/2005
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Mediocre Arcade by Yi-Boe H. at InsiderPages

This arcade is as the name implies, filled with games that are are payed in nickles. The games aren't of the greatest caliber, however, they can provide some entertainment. Not a bad place to go for little...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/06/2005
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Decent Birthday Place by John L. at InsiderPages

You get what you pay for. This place features a lot of older arcade machines (mostly from 90s) that cost only a nickel to play. It's a pretty good place for kids to play cheap but it gets tiresome quickly. All...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/03/2005
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Great, cheap fun by elaine w. at InsiderPages

You can play all the arcade games you want for cheap prices. There is a large selection of games, but it isn't a huge place. It's fun once in awhile to go and have fun with friends and family.
citysearch.com - user review - 09/09/2005
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cheap games. by V L. at InsiderPages

after paying a few bucks for admission, it's about the same or cheaper than going to other arcades to play the same or similar games. it's kind of like chuck e cheese where parents bring their kids. you rarely...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2005
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Nickel City by Marie W. at InsiderPages

Nickel City is an arcade which is really cheap. You have to buy a couple of bucks to get in , but after that, all the games are a nickel each, hence the name nickel city. This place is not the cleanest place,...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2005
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